Publishing now: GenderFail’s working class guide to making a living off self publishing 2nd Edition

Publishing Now: GenderFails Working-Class Guide to Making a Living Off Small Publishing is an 18,000-word/35-chapter book about my journey running GenderFail. We aren’t taught anything about finding ways to make a living as an artist from art school. It’s bullshit, especially when you think about the debt working class and low-income are getting into for the off chance of making their dreams a reality. I found a way to make a living off my publishing platform, GenderFail, and in this publication, I share how I think that happened. This is the professional practice or guide I wish I had when I started. With GenderFail, I didn’t have any funding when I started, and over the 7 years of the project, I have found a way to do the work I want while also paying my bills. Publishing Now: GenderFails Working-Class Guide to Making a Living Off Small Publishing is my attempt to have an honest account of advice, true stories, resources, and other information that can help other low-income and working-class people find ways of making a living as an artist. This book also acts as a crystallization of my interests and goals as an educator. The title, in part, Publishing Now, Is taken from a class I taught for 4 semesters at SMFA at Tufts. In this, I wanted to give an honest survey and account from the perspective of a working-class artist and publisher. In many ways, this book is the core of what that class intended to share. Publishing Now: GenderFails Working-Class Guide to Making a Living Off Small Publishing is imperfect and acts as just one account of one artist. I hope this publication will inspire and motivate other working artists to share this journey to help low-income and working-class people find ways to make money in the arts. Publishing now: GenderFail’s working-class guide to making a living off self-publishing Ed by Be Oakley 140 pages Digital May 2023 Perfect Bound 2nd Edition